The Truth Truck
We spent a couple of days at a conference
with another pro-life organization called Operation Save America. We met lots of great people who share our
passion for protecting and defending the unborn.
This organization comes at the issue of
abortion from a different angle (as do pretty much all pro-life groups—no two
are alike, it seems). Far from the
subtleties which EMC uses to attract women they utilize a head on and
unambiguous method. With large graphic signs and speakers blasting the Good
News of the Lord and religious music, they cry out to women of the love of the
Lord for them and appeal to them to spare their babies from death.
Can I fault them for their use of “shock
factor”? Not really—not when you hear of
their turnarounds. The fact is that
after working with and beside many different pro-life groups in the U.S. this
summer I have realized that it is not about which organization you represent—God
uses them all. I don’t believe there is
a right or wrong way (excepting certain extremes, perhaps) but rather right and
wrong people.
If you prepare yourself spiritually—for again,
this is a spiritual battle before it is anything else—God can and will make use
of you to help women and save babies no matter how well or poorly or quickly or
slowly or loudly or silently you head into the battle. I believe the most honey-tongued sidewalk
counselor, if inadequately prepared spiritually, will fare more poorly in the
work to save live and hearts than the most awkward counselor who attends daily
mass, prays hard and often, and goes to frequent confession to keep himself
right with God. It is a SPIRITUAL
battle, so the accidents come second to substance (students of philosophy,
please don’t kill me for stretching the meaning of that last bit...).
So is OSA’s approach one I would take? Probably not.
But it works nonetheless, because the warriors understand the battle and
know how to prepare: stay close to God.
I was happy to hear several speakers making it abundantly clear that the
battle we are fighting is a spiritual one and that our fitness as vessels is
the primary concern if we wish to be any use in saving lives.
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